The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.

Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.

I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.

I don't think we are here for anything. We're just products of evolution. You can say, "Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don't think there's a purpose." But I'm anticipating a good lunch.

The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

Remember, grab you're future with both hands and mold it into what you want it to be. It's the determined, who create the life they want, while the idle sit by and watch it fade away into nothingness. The future belongs to the exceptional individuals, who can see the light of the future, at the end of the tunnel.